Ultimately, the richest resource for meaning and healing is one we already posses. It rests (mostly untapped) in the material of our own lifestory, in the sprawling, many-layered “text” that has been accumulating within us across the years.
Restorying Our Lives: Personal Growth through Autobiographical Reflection by Kenyon, Gary M., and William L. Randall (1997)
This is one of my favorite quotations. I used it last week to conclude a workshop on “Life Stories as Healing” that I gave for group of palliative care workers. Life stories are much more than just a chronicling of a life lived. Our stories also have the capacity to heal the soul.
Photo by Denis Collette
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